Astronomy, Space & Time

This Very Short Introduction looks deep into space and describes the worlds that make up our Solar System: terrestrial planets, giant planets, dwar...

Could the $50 purchase of an ancient coin by a Rutgers astronomer have unlocked the mystery of the Christmas Star? For years, scientists have looke...

Our understanding of the physical universe underwent a revolution in the early twentieth century - evolving from the classical physics of Newton, G...

What do Virginia Woolf, the rotation of hurricanes, Babylonian kings and Einstein''s General Theory Relativity all have in common? Eclipses. Always...

Jill Tarter is a pioneer, an innovator, an adventurer, and a controversial force. At a time when women weren''t encouraged to do much outside the h...

How did our modern picture of the universe come into being? Masters of the Universe tells this fascinating story in an unusual format that blends f...

Mask of the Sun recounts the forgotten lore behind this amazing phenomenon and reveals the humanism behind the science of both lunar and solar ecli...

In 1633, the Roman Inquisition condemned Galileo as a suspected heretic for defending Copernicus's hypothesis of the earth's motion and denying the...